Anthony Browne Quotes
I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm still in love with paper and paint and pencils.
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.
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A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
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Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
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If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.
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Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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No one likes change but babies in diapers.
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Of course I have had a boyfriend. However, I was way too busy while taking care of myself, and I could not show a better care for my boyfriend. I found myself getting more and more egocentric, and I was not a good girlfriend at all.
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You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.
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I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
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No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.
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You saw too late. Now you are as she is, bewteen two worlds, warmth bleeding into cold.
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I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.
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What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.
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The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.
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I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm still in love with paper and paint and pencils.
